Easy Beatdown

The violent Dark-type energy continued to rage. At the center of it, Hoopa Confined gradually opened its eyes, the panic on its face slowly giving way to confusion.

Hoopa Confined examined its body in puzzlement.

What's going on?

That terrifying Hoopa had clearly become enraged and attacked it, so why was the attack only this strong?

Although there was a lot of Dark-type energy and it looked intimidating, the way it was being used was utterly terrible.

Based on Hoopa Confined's initial assessment, the other side might not have brought out even a quarter of that Dark-type energy's power—perhaps not even a fifth.

In Mark's words, its control was lacking.

Although Hoopa Confined was not especially diligent in Combat Training and was not particularly clever either, it had still kept up with Mark's training progress.

Hoopa did not receive as much praise from Mark as Caterpie or Leafeon in everyday life, but it still received slightly more than the other two members of the Mischief Trio, Jirachi and Mew.

It was only because its talent was a little worse and it had become Mark's Pokémon somewhat later that it had never been a match for Jirachi and Mew.

With such training experience, Hoopa Confined naturally had a good eye.

Moreover, the other party was another version of itself, sharing the same origin, which made Hoopa Confined's perception even clearer.

In short, from the manipulation of Dark-type energy alone, Hoopa Confined could see three flaws in the other's control.

First, the other's control of Dark-type energy was far too loose and insufficiently concentrated.

This was not limited to Dark-type energy. When controlling any kind of energy, one had to make it as condensed as possible.

Unless one deliberately wanted to disperse the energy for some special application. But since the other